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Just because "everybody is doing it" is no reason to be so accepting of what has become your teens take on what he can and can't do, but that is your decision.  I definitely agree with those who say if you are paying for college that you have every right to expectations on performance as you do have a responsibility to be sure he knows where to go not only for the flu but for a mental health issue should it arise.  Although you would like to think of him as "an adult" suddenly at age 18, it sounds like he is performing at more or less the age of a rebellious teen and certainly is not in anything approaching an adult mindset.

Other factors which could impact your family:
1- Your pocketbook should he be driving a family owned and insured car in any setting and have an accident.
2- Younger siblings who are witnessing just how loose DF and DM are with this brother are certainly more apt to try their wings earlier or it will be a lot harder to put any meat into what you say as far as rules go.
3- [b]Unlike the times of those really cool middle aged folks who now are looking fondly back on their pot smoking college years, there is now something called the Internet and if there is any chance that Dear Son has already left an imprint there or others of him or his antics or will likely do so in his college years, this reality alone may have  an imprint on his future[/b]

Parenting is hard all the way through, but many on this board seem to be "Free Range Parents of Teens"[/quote]

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